Dell PowerConnect 6248

The PowerConnect 6248 is one of Dell’s most advanced switch offerings with advanced core switching capabilities for the small to medium enterprise. This 24-port Gigabit Ethernet Layer 3 switch is stackable and offers optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and supports the latest version of the Internet Protocol-IPv6-enabling broader worldwide scalability. High performance stacking is supported for up to twelve systems, and advanced security and Quality of Service (QoS) features make this switch ideal for applications such as Voice over IP, Layer 3 routing, High Performance Cluster Computing (HPPC), and iSCSI storage.

Layer 3 Routing PerformanceUp to 224 IPv4 routes, up to 128 IPv6 routes
Up to 128 RIP Routing Interfaces
Up to 128 OSPF Routing Interfaces; up to128 OSPF Areas; up to 128 Routing Interfaces per OSPF Area; up to 32 routes for ECMP Routing; up to 2 next hops per ECMP
Up to 128 VLAN Routing Interfaces
Up to 256 Multicast Forwarding Entries
Up to 896 ARP entries; Up to 512 NDP entries

VLAN

VLAN support for tagging and port-based as per IEEE 802.1Q
Double VLAN tagging (QinQ)
Up to 1024 VLANs supported
Dynamic VLAN with GVRP support
Voice VLAN support
Custom Protocol VLANs

Link Aggregation with support for up to 18 static aggregated links, 8 dynamic aggregated links per switch and up to 8 member ports per aggregated link; LACP support (IEEE 802.3ad), LLDP-MED
Support for unicast NLB (multicast NLB not supported)